Annual General Meetings
JASNA’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) is a literary conference, a celebration of Jane Austen, and a collegial gathering of JASNA members.
Each October several hundred members attend the AGM, a three-day conference with an Austen theme hosted by a JASNA region in Canada or the United States. The AGM features dozens of lectures by Austen scholars and JASNA members, as well as special exhibits, entertainment, workshops, tours of the local area, and a banquet and Regency ball.
Information about the October AGM is mailed to JASNA members in the late spring. Meeting
details and a registration form for the upcoming meeting are also posted on this site. Many
papers presented at AGMs are published in the society’s journals
Persuasions
and
Persuasions On-Line.
Upcoming AGMs
2009 Annual General Meeting, Oct. 9-11, Philadelphia, PA USA
Theme: “Jane Austen’s Brothers and Sisters in the City of Brotherly Love”
2010 Annual General Meeting, Oct. 28-31, Portland, OR USA
Theme: “Jane Austen and the Abbey: Mystery, Mayhem and Muslin in Portland”
2011 Annual General Meeting, Oct. 14-16, Fort Worth, TX USA
Theme: “Jane Austen: 200 years of Sense and Sensibility”
Past AGMs
2008 Annual General Meeting, Oct. 2-5, Chicago, IL USA
Theme: “Jane Austen’s Legacy: Life, Love, & Laughter”
2007 Annual General Meeting, Oct. 5-7, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Theme: “Discovering Emma in Vancouver”
2006 Annual General Meeting, Oct. 27-29, Tucson, AZ USA
Theme: “Fresh Perspectives on Mansfield Park”
2005 Annual General Meeting, Oct. 7-9, Milwaukee, WI USA
Theme: “Jane Austen’s Letters in Fact and Fiction”
2004 Annual General Meeting, Oct. 7-10, Los Angeles, CA USA
Theme: “Anne Elliot in the City: Interior and Exterior Worlds”
2003 Annual General Meeting, Oct. 9-13, Winchester and Chawton, England
Theme: “Homecoming: The Importance of Home and Family in Jane Austen’s Life and Works”
2002 Annual General Meeting, Oct. 11-13, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Theme: “Jane Austen’s World: Artistic, Domestic, Political, Social”
2001 Annual General Meeting, Oct. 5-7, Seattle, WA, USA
Theme: “Pleasures, Pursuits, and Passions: Entertainment and Jane Austen”
2000 Annual General Meeting, Oct. 13-15, Boston, MA, USA
Theme: “Pride and Prejudice: Past, Present, Future”
1999 Annual General Meeting, Oct. 8-10, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Theme: “Emma: Austen at her Peak”
1998 Annual General Meeting, Oct. 9-11, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Theme: “Northanger Abbey: the Gothic and More”
1997 Annual General Meeting, Oct. 3-4, San Francisco, CA, USA
Theme: “Sanditon: The New Direction?”
1996 Annual General Meeting, Oct. 11-13, Richmond, VA, USA
Theme: “Jane Austen and her Men”
1995 Annual General Meeting, Oct 6-8, Madison, WI, USA
Theme: “Revisiting Mansfield Park”
1994 Annual General Meeting, Nov 4-6, New Orleans, LA, USA
Theme: “Jane Austen and the Three R’s: Rebellion, Revolution and the Regency”
1993 Annual General Meeting, Oct 8-10, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada
Theme: “Persuasion”
1992 Annual General Meeting, Oct 16-18, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Theme: "The Letters, Focusing on Travel and the Sea”
1991 Annual General Meeting, Oct 11-13, Ottawa, Canada
Theme: “Emma”
Theme: “Sense and Sensibility”
1989 Annual General Meeting, Oct 13-15, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Theme: “Pride and Prejudice”
1988 Annual General Meeting, Oct 14-16, Chicago, IL, USA
Theme: “Jane Austen’s England”
1987 Annual General Meeting, Oct 8-12, New York, NY, USA
Theme: “Lady Susan, the Juvenilia”
1986 Annual General Meeting, Sep 26-28, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada
Theme: “The Watsons”
1985 Annual General Meeting, Oct 11-13, Savannah, GA, USA
Theme: “Northanger Abbey”
1984 Annual General Meeting, St. Louis, MO, USA
Theme: “Persuasion”
1983 Annual General Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Theme: “Emma”
1982 Annual General Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Theme: “The Settings of the Novels”
1981 Annual General Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA
Theme: “Sense and Sensibility”
1980 Annual General Meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA
Theme: “Mansfield Park”
1979 Annual General Meeting, New York, NY, USA
Theme: “Pride and Prejudice”